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Gertrude Fisher Scott
Best remembered for the early-20th-century Jean Cabot books, this writer created lively stories about college life, friendship, and growing independence. Her work has a warm, accessible feel that still makes her young heroine easy to follow.
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Jean Cabot at Ashton
by Gertrude Fisher Scott
About the author
Gertrude Fisher Scott was an American author known for the Jean Cabot series, including Jean Cabot at Ashton (1912), Jean Cabot in the British Isles (1913), Jean Cabot in Cap and Gown (1914), and Jean Cabot at the House with Blue Shutters (1915). Her books were published by Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, and Jean Cabot at Ashton has remained available through Project Gutenberg and the Internet Archive.
The best-known of these novels follows Jean Cabot, a young woman from Los Angeles as she adjusts to college life at an Eastern school. The story centers on friendship, homesickness, and personal growth, giving Scott's fiction an appealing mix of campus adventure and coming-of-age feeling.
Reliable biographical details about Scott herself are limited in the sources I found. A memorial record indexed her as Gertrude Isabella Fisher Scott (1881–1927) and notes that she married illustrator Arthur Orange Scott in 1910; he is also credited as the illustrator of Jean Cabot at Ashton.